Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-06
THE BOOM AT oROynLE.
Remarkable Growth of Orange Groves
Rapid Rise In Property, Etc.


EDS. REcoRD-UNIoH: If anyone doubts
the statement that Central and Northern
California is beginning to feel the effects
of boom fever, let him convince himself
by visiting Oroyille and the Thermolita
Colony, and my word for it, he will never
| again be doubter, but will fall into the
ranks OF the great army of "boomers,"
and wage war against the silurian, who
should, ere this, have been with his
fathers. Oroville has awakened to the
, realization of the fact that they must be
up and doing for themselves, and demon
strate IN every way to the people who are
desirous of making homes for themselves
| which shall be beautiful in the growth Of
the orange, lemon and lime peaches and
! pears, and, in fact, every fruit known, and
In easy reach of Il market, that they have,
If not the most desirable, at least as much
SO as any in California. They are organiz-
ing III way to accomplish this through
the medium of liberal advertising and
energetic work.
| Mr.. Anderson, Chairman of the Board of
| Supervisors, informed Your correspondent
| that they intend pushing these enterprises
to the front, and they will cooperate with
Sacramento in everything undertaken, for
| they fully appreciate all she is doing in
| furthering the interests of not only Butte,
but every county in Central and Northern
| California; that they read with interest
! the work being done by the Citizens I'm
proyement Association, and hoped to profit
| by the experience of the Association in
knowing how to conduct enterprises of this
| character
Thermolita Colony is being rapidly sold.
A number of the Association cottages are
completed, and within two weeks the work
will be commenced upon the new hotel.
| which is to be an artistic structure. located
| upon spot commanding one OF the finest
views in all California. The place is beau
| tiful. The thirty-fiye acres of orange trees
planted last year by the citizens of Oro-
| vile, to demonstrate the fact that oranges
can be grown there in large acreage, as
we'll as in private gardens, are simply SUI
perb, and have to be seen TO be appreciated.
Out Of thirty-fvc hundred trees planted.
they lost but thirty-ive, OF | per cent, a
most remarkable success, and which forever
stamps as false the statement of southern
correspondents to Eastern journals that
such fruits cannot be grown in Northern
California
Connected with the orange orchard is
| an extensive nursery, in which they are
starting orange, lemon and lime trees, as
well as shade and ornamental trees for
the avenues, etc, from which colonists
may be supplied at the lowest prices.
l afterward visited the Butte County
Hospital property, Immediately adjoining
the colony property, and was there simply
astonlshed by what / saw. Oranges on the
trees-not one but numbers of them
with oranges measuring now, this. early in
the season, seven inches in circumference,
oranges which | heard a gentleman say
who had travelled all over the United
States, excelled in every point those grown
IN Southern California, Florida or any
where else. These oranges will be ripe
and III the market six weeks earlier than
those grown in Southern California. What
would the Eastern excursionist say to this
if he were told it?
by the way, why don't they tell these
things to them, and more than this. that
our climate is a delightfully."- eauable one
in winter, and that we are not wrapt in
snow and ice, rs they believe; for have !
they not been told so by the literature
emanating IN Southern California?
But to return to the hospital grounds |
There | saw lemons, LINES, peaches. pears.
apples, vineyards, corn, sugar-cane (think
OF it-sugar cane J, vegetables, melons OF |
all descriptions-in fact, everything is |
grown on the property, even their grain |
and hay. And they have what will make |
the desert bloom rs the rose-the most de- |
licious water piped from spring on Table !,
Mountain and from the bitches now owned |
by the syndicate controlling the colony. |
lhls piece of property simply shows what |
can be done on any portion of the colony !
tract, and l prophesy in the near fu-
ture the grandest success for it. for it has |
everything III its favor, and needs only to |
be brought to the notice of the multitude |
OF people coming to California to be as |
eagerly sought for As any property has
been in the lower part of the State
Land in every direction about Oroville |
is being bought up by capitalists and by
those intending to be growers. and to-day
large transfer was made of a valuable |
property in this neighborhood, by bond,
amounting to $l1S,000. 1 saw the papers
for it. Although l have drawn this out
now to a tedious length, | would wish
might tell you more of what see going
on about me, and clearly prove to your
readers that the great wave of prosperity
is upon them, and that they must arouse |
themselves TO ride 1t, or be swept out of
sight for all time, to their everlasting
shame and remorse. +. w.
Oroville, August 2, 1887.